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Google Apps Priority Inbox Review

September 2, 2010
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As anyone who follows my articles knows, Google Apps is one of my favorite Google products.  The other day, I logged into my webmail for my personal domain (hosted on Google Apps), and was pleasantly surprised to see a new feature; the Priority Inbox.  While simple enough in concept, the “priority inbox” seems like a [...]

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How To: Track Your Brand Name Online

August 25, 2010
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I want to share with you one of the web’s best kept secrets.  A service so awesome many companies end up paying for it even though it’s completely free.  In other words, if you are paying any of these companies who claim to track your brand name online you are most likely being taken advantage [...]

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The 5 Best Android Features

August 13, 2010
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Let me make it clear that I had never owned an Android-based device until yesterday when I purchased the Droid 2.  I never had a true understanding of the way the Android operating system worked and obviously I’m still learning as it’s only my second day using it.  However, here are 5 features which stood [...]

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Google Gearing Up to Enter Social Networking?

August 7, 2010
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Yesterday Google announced their purchase of Slide; a company that develops technology and software for social networks such as MySpace. In the post on the Official Google Blog yesterday, Google’s engineering director, David Glazer, stated that the acquisition would help in “building a more social web”, a term Mark Zuckerberg, CEO/Founder of Facebook often uses. [...]

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How To: Set Up Google Analytics

August 6, 2010
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In my recent article series entitled “Why You’re Not Gettin’ Any”, I discussed why websites do not generate their full potential in terms of traffic and profit. Hands down, the most important aspect of this was the concept of gaining more visitors to your site. After all, visitors are ultimately the key to getting higher [...]

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Waving Goodbye to Google Wave

August 4, 2010
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A while back, Google announced the development of Google Wave; a web-based communications product that seemed to have quite a bit of potential.  With features such as character-by-character real-time messaging and scalable group collaboration, Wave promised to be the next big thing in terms of Internet communication.  When invites first became available, people were anxious [...]

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Google Spent $1.1 Billion On Startup Acquisitions (So Far)

July 31, 2010
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Google has spent $1.1 billion in the first half of 2010 on startup acquisitions alone.  The company has bought 22 startups so far this year.   However, the majority of the amount was spent in the somewhat recently completed acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob. Google’s acquisition spree has been geared towards smaller startups, but [...]

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Google Launches Google Apps Version Tailored for Government

July 27, 2010
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I love Google Apps. All of my personal domains use Google Apps for email, calendar, and documents, and I highly recommend the product to anyone setting up email and collaboration services for a domain. I know I’m not alone in my love for Google Apps; thousands of businesses, organizations, and individuals use Google Apps for [...]

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Finally! Gmail Improves Email Signatures

July 20, 2010
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Do you use Gmail as a universal email inbox? Or do simply want a nicely formatted email signature? Well, after a lot of waiting, Google has finally made improvements to the signature feature of their web-based email client. These improvements are somewhat basic, but their subtle introduction to Gmail has made the service that much [...]

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Google Introduces Image Search Ads

July 20, 2010
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Marketing and advertising is all about finding unique ways to reach your target audience. Even if you have an amazing and revolutionary product, it is very difficult to sell it if no one knows about it. With the influx of Internet users in the last ten years, many companies have been cutting back on PR [...]

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Sex.com Back on the Market, Internet Explorer Grows

July 2, 2010
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I’m going to try to do the weekly news thing again every Friday. So without further ado, here is this weeks top stories that made the short list. Story #1: Sex.com is back on the open market, Sedo, a company which specializes in selling domain names is the broker for this deal. You can email consult@sedo.com [...]

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Privacy Wars: Google Me vs Facebook

June 29, 2010
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Apparently, Google is working on their own social network modeled off of Facebook.  The name?  Google Me.  Is it real?  According to a tweet (since removed) by Kevin Rose (CEO of Digg) it seems likely.  Additional insight has come from Adam D’Angelo, former Facebook CTO, in his post on Quora (his latest venture), where he [...]

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